I dreamed that you had ceased to love me— not that you had come from other beds back to mine, or gone from mine to others, just that something in your heart had stopped.
I willed myself awake to find you still beside me. It was just a dream, I thought, yet when I turned to kiss you, in your eyes I saw that you had ceased to love me.
I willed myself awake a second time to find myself alone, as I have been these many months, but did not know if it was terror or relief I felt, and whether
dreams unfold the past or make the future plain. I dreamed that you had ceased to love me, and know when I see nothing in your eyes I can't dream myself awake a third time.
Whose reality have we found ourselves in? The reality given to us by those who sin. Break out of it I say. There is a way. Picture yourself in a world of peace that has no sinners lurking around. Shut the door on everything else and what is it you've found?
We are molded in stardust and birthed on the tail of a comet.
Our lives are our own private universes.
Each decision we don't take is an alternate reality.
Maybe the truth hurts more than I do
Because everyone walks across it
On their way to an ocean of lies
There, they take their shoes off
Dip their duplicitous feet in the icy water
Feel the nips of the circling piranha
Watch the strength of the current's pull
The Child In Time - Ian McEwan
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
My Life As A Fake - Peter Carey
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (full text)
The Dream
I dreamed that you had ceased to love me—
not that you had come from other beds
back to mine, or gone from mine to others,
just that something in your heart had stopped.
I willed myself awake to find you still
beside me. It was just a dream, I thought,
yet when I turned to kiss you, in your eyes
I saw that you had ceased to love me.
I willed myself awake a second time
to find myself alone, as I have been
these many months, but did not know if it
was terror or relief I felt, and whether
dreams unfold the past or make the future
plain. I dreamed that you had ceased to love me,
and know when I see nothing in your eyes
I can't dream myself awake a third time.
- David Solway
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution - Richard Dawkins
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
The Speed Of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything - Stephen M.R. Covey
Whose Reality?
Whose reality have we found ourselves in?
The reality given to us by those who sin.
Break out of it I say. There is a way.
Picture yourself in a world of peace
that has no sinners lurking around.
Shut the door on everything else
and what is it you've found?
You're a hermit.
- Edwina Reizer
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With The Sons Of North Korea's Elite - Suki Kim
Alternate Reality
We are molded in stardust and birthed on the tail of a comet.
Our lives are our own private universes.
Each decision we don't take is an alternate reality.
- Bridgette Alexis
The Truth Of Fact, The Truth Of Feeling - Ted Chiang (full text)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
Lying: Man's Second Nature - George Serban
Lying: Man's Second Nature - George Serban (excerpt)
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (excerpts)
Displaced Person - Lee Harding
Maybe the Truth Hurts More Than I Do
Maybe the truth hurts more than I do
Because everyone walks across it
On their way to an ocean of lies
There, they take their shoes off
Dip their duplicitous feet in the icy water
Feel the nips of the circling piranha
Watch the strength of the current's pull
And jump in anyway.
- Chris Thomas